I WAKE up and check Margaret put the car key in the car for the folks from the garage could take out away early. She slept through her alarm – and it looks like they came, checked the car, tried our front door handle then went away. Why they didn’t ring the door bell or phone is a bit of a mystery!

Margaret calls the garage and arranges for us to take the car…we borrow Betty’s car, do the needful and are home by 10am.

After breakfast I get busy designing a wee pedalboard for the Valeton GP5 pedal and radio receiver using Shapr3D on the iPad. It’s a bit of a learning experience but I get there eventually and by lunchtime I have a 3D design to send to the printer. It’ll take about three hours to print.

In the studio I mess with some guitar ideas and get some poster artwork done for the March gigs down south

I get out a walk but don’t go far as the rain starts and it’s getting dark already.

The pedalboard has printed when I get back so I take it to the studio and start making up the connector cables and stuff. Some of its a bit fiddly but it all works and although no it a work of art, it’s functional and practical.